I bought the leatherseats.com replacement stuff in a group buy a year or two ago, and never got around to doing it. Finally I am. It's a 92 SC300.

I have been searching the archives and coming up empty for a thread that has good instructions and tips. Specifically about removing the plastic covers around the seats, and dealing with the seat heaters. I have the 3M spray adhesive for the heaters, but still looking for tips.

Thanks!

 

I know the later model SC service manuals have complete instructions for disassembly and replacment of the leather. Havent seen what your looking for though.




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Actually its self explanatory as you take the pieces off. I was on the group buy few months back and there were two forums that I know of had good instructions on how / what /where from that purchase. Mine came out wrinkle free. What I got from leatherseats.com was slightly different from what came out my 96’ SC400. Here is brief note of what I did.

- Before taking the seats out of the car, raise the seats all the way up so you can access the bolts to remove the bottom cushion. I had to do this twice because I couldn’t get the hole to exactly lineup to the rear bolt. The front seats are heavy.
- Bottom cushion of the front seat is held by four bolts on each outside-corner and this is the only piece that will need to separate from the seat frame.
- Heating element, I used the glue to glue it in its place and also used ring tie to hold it in two places.
- Work inside out, and on each ring clipping, I smooth out the newly clipped area with hand to work out the wrinkles.
- Front bottom cushion on original were ring clips but the replacement was a slide on plastic “track.” I had to make few cuts to make it flush in to the metal edges on the cushion. You can use your imagination to best fit the clips/track.
- Back cushion on the front seat around the neck area; replacement cover only had flat plastic piece but the original has an edge to clip in to the slot. One of the forum member replaced that with the original but I didn’t have the sawing machine nor patience to take it to the shop for alteration. I just used the plastic strip as they came with the replacement. I just inserted the plastic strip all the way in to the original slot and just fold it outward. Other member just left it hanging so it looked bloated when finished. You will understand better once you start taking the old covers off the seats.
- Rear seats are easy so nothing much to explain. Mine was little too tight so I had to do some serious pulling and tucking to make the cover fit.

Make sure you have enough time because it took me total of 8-9 hours to complete the task which included cleaning the inside. Invest in working glove because your hand/finger will hurt. I got blisters after it was all done even with gloves on. It is rewarding once it is all complete. And one note, mix smell of leather and vinyl on first few days can be intoxicating but vinyl smell will eventually disappear and leaves more of the leather smell. Good luck.

 

Thanks for the info. If anyone has any more to add, please do.

-Don